A few years ago Marybeth Holleman and I put together a panel for an AWP (Associated Writers and Writing Programs) conference that we called “Wild Writing Residencies.” With three other writers from around the country, we discussed our experiences with a variety of artist-in-residence programs that take place in national parks and other “wild” places. […]
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Last year and the year before, I invested in do-it-yourself writing residencies. Don’t get me wrong: I love and appreciate writing residency programs. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been awarded four, all of which granted up to a month of a free and comfortable space to do nothing but write, and read, and daydream,
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We’re fortunate to live in a place so rich with story and art, where culture and economies relate in healthful—or at least richly complex—ways. Alaska individuals, businesses, and philanthropists value and invest in local artists and we harvest the resulting fruits. Busts, booms, and all, Alaska life is good, and often sweetened—like highbush cranberries after
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Leigh Newman spent August in the Mary Jane cabin. Photo by Elise Giordano In August 1897, Alaska’s first literary icon landed on the beach in Dyea at the beginning of his overland journey to the Yukon gold fields. Jack London, then a 21-year-old adventure-seeker, found among Dyea’s clustered beach of dogs and humanity the beginnings of
